BMack37

Definitely not a fan of getting on the floor to adjust level, any way to avoid that is an improvement.

I bought an XB1 on day one to play BF4, BF3 and BF4 are really the only games I've played and enjoyed since I was a teenager. I have a ridiculous amount of hours in both those games and am embarrassingly good at them. Too bad they completely changed the direction of the games, probably for the best for my spare time. I haven't played much in the past year and I feel like I get a lot more done haha.

BF4, the last great BF game.

If I can't make stuff in the garage...watch youtube, look for really good deals online, browse instagram.

I personally think Milwaukee has the best deals even with less distribution and the larger lines are nice. I second the pawn shop thing, also FB marketplace, letgo, offerup and craigslist...plenty of high end stuff around me. A lot of near new items. On eBay, new in packaging batteries are super cheap on eBay, Dewalt might be the same.

I took a 2X8 and drilled a bunch of holes, wrote the description in the open space. It just sits in a drawer. There are inserts that are better than just drilling a bunch of holes in a piece of scrap but I didn't think it needed to be pretty. Tip: Drill the holes 5/16 and 9/16 so it's not super tight when the wood swells.

It's a generic drill press clamp. It's basically the same as all the other Chinese drill press clamps, super useful.

I picked one up too. Used my birthday as an excuse. $179 for the trimmer and battery is a pretty good deal considering...plus I had $69.** on a gift card I got using CC points. I bought it because of the head, In feeling the one in store, I think I like the balance of that one better...but carbon fiber! 😍

Along the lines of you taking these pics in case some walk off...I always take pics when I get something of any value for insurance purposes(including serial numbers), I also hide labels in the battery doors. I've always worried that I'd be on site and someone would claim my Fluke or power tools as theirs...unless there are cameras or you have a hidden marking, it's my word versus theirs. Or in some cases like Knipex...I do a picture and a spread sheet so if I find a deal I can see if I already have it.

haha, TBH that's why I liked the mistake pic...everyone on here and IG never make mistakes, I feel like I'm constantly correcting mistakes.

I just looked it up, either I forgot about that or didn't notice it. Looks like four engagement points and meatier parts of the housing and improved leverage. I still don't love that split design, Dewalt's is soo nice, easy to do one-handed and not looking. Milwaukee's you have to shake it, if there is dust and grime in it, you have to turn the lugs...then most of the time you go to tighten and the lugs lift from their indents and you're back at square one.

I hope they improve this design, I like Dewalt's attachment design but hate their handle. Milwaukee's handle with the Dewalt attachment design would be great.

I seriously hope to even get half as good as you at woodworking.

She's soo hot up there with Jessica Biel and Carrie Underwood.

I reiterate this sentiment

I hope so, it's worth a shot to ask...the part is on the gearbox assembly, so that's a $66 - $80 part. http://www.repairtoolparts.com/milwaukee-parts/milwaukee-2703-22-g72a-parts/milwaukee-14-29-0027-gearbox-assembly

That's a lot nicer than anything in my workspace! It's too nice, it would look out of place!

Yeah! Very reasonable...actually, I think I got mine for free because they arrived 5 days late. It was either that or one of the 3.Peaks locking pliers. I need to try to figure it out, I want to buy something from that seller to make up for the unnecessary refund.

Vessel makes great stuff. Have you tried the Vessel Gel grip? I'm a fan of them, very comfortable grip. Here's some pics of them:

They're really deep(The distance from heel to the bend from shin to foot) shoes. A lot of shoes are lacking in that, it works well for fat man-feet...not to be confused with but yet not excluded fat-man feet. With those kind of shoes I have issues with the tongue sliding to the outside. I have really big calves and larger than average feet but my ankles are kinda skinny so I notice this really easy.

You're not going to like the price. I'd buy an inverter if it was necessary to charge in-vehicle. https://www.ebay.com/p/Milwaukee-M18-2710-20-Wall-and-Vehicle-Charger/2254462514

It's definitely an interesting topic. You have to imagine that the TTI brands do talk in regards to R&D and market research, there's no sense in not sharing that information. You do see very different approaches in the brands whereas you see very similar approaches in SBD. It's kind of odd that SBD doesn't use B&D, an extremely well-known brand, to compete with Ryobi. Maybe it's because they like having their platforms available in more stores instead of doing exclusivity contracts(and it seems tough to have that many SKUs at soo many stores, in-store, for power tools). I imagine they could use Craftsman to compete with Ryobi and use Lowe's as the retailer...SBD virtually has Lowe's by the balls. I imagine that's why HD got an semi-exclusive contract with Flexvolt to keep them out of Lowe's. I bet HD wouldn't accept the line without it and obviously HD is the big dog in the fight.

...just sayin.

They're better than the newer Kobalt boxes released in the past couple years. I like the PC box better and the Lenox workbench is a lot nicer than the Craftsman, the Craftsman is like 4-6" too short. They're decent but I'd definitely take the Husky, Milwaukee and Dewalt boxes over the Craftsman...and of course the HF boxes.

Ryobi is owned by TTI but it's not the same company as Milwaukee. They have their own engineers, design team, etc.. They designed the batteries to be backwards compatible which was genius for their target market, homeowners. Ridgid isn't owned by TTI but TTI owns AEG which Ridgid rebrands, again there are different engineers, design team etc. With SBD, they're all run as a family, trickle down-ish from Dewalt to PC. The batteries are interchangeable with modification, normally just removing a tab. I don't know if SBD has commented about how the brands are run(other than a chart of the target markets) but I would assume that B&D has their own engineers, etc...you see a lot of oddball tools come into that lineup. Then there are things like the Restorer, which is licensed from the Inventor and originally released under the PC line. Now that Restorer is slightly down-spec-ed in power and a B&D product. It almost seems that PC is in limbo, almost an unwanted stepchild. Occasionally they throw PC a bone (the tool box that came out in 2016, or an occasional new tool release) but mostly it's idle with no advertising. Here's the SBD target markets chart: